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- From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Dumbarton rail bridge was Re: SPUR meeting on SF Transbay Terminal
- Message-ID: <veaeq1o@sgi.sgi.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 07:37:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.225817.20544@s1.gov> <1jr143INNh7l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan26.200434.21612@ntmtv>
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- In article <1993Jan26.200434.21612@ntmtv>, adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
- >
- > Then, once you (as in your speculation) decide to restore rail
- > service, it is likely that you'll have to rip up some or all of the
- > roadway in order to do it--unless you invested in all the necessary
- > trackwork up front and then paved over it...
-
- You could do like Seattle did and put rails down the middle of
- the roadway. Still, it does seem there would be some nasty
- problems. Buses need a somewhat wider ROW (unless they use
- a guideway like in Australia (I forget which city)).
-
- > Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I don't think this is a very
- > practical idea. If anything, putting buses on first and then trains
- > is liable to cost *more* than just going to trains in the first
- > place.
- >
- > Why not just start rail service and use buses and/or shuttles as
- > feeders where needed?
-
- We could also convert a lane on Dumbarton to carpool use, or use
- the rail line during peak hours. The problem with feeders is with
- transferring. Unless the train waits for all the bus feeders (or
- the train runs frequently enough that it doesn't matter), there
- has to be a substantial overlap time programmed into the schedules.
-
- With the SGI to Caltrain shuttle, it's nearly 20 minutes from the
- time you board the shuttle until the scheduled arrival of the train.
- The trip to the station takes less than 10 minutes in a car.
- A bus from Shoreline industrial area down 101 and then down Lawrence
- would be the fastest commute for me (of course, it would have to run
- pretty strange schedules).
-
- jeremy
-